12 FuMP tracks made the countdown (10 main page, 2 Sideshow), and a huge pile of congrats to The Library Bards for getting their first Funny 25 tracks with "Geeky Girl" and "Regeneration", as well as Scooter Picnic with "It's Frog Noticing Time" which is the first song project by TV's Kyle to make the year-end chart! Speaking of two-fers, congrats to the double entries by both Power Salad and Steve Goodie! And I gotta mention Worm Quartet and Insane Ian who make a couple of my favorite songs of the year which I requested montly, amongst others listed here. :) And a shout-out to our FuMP Sideshow contributors with their break-in movie review interviews, Chris Wolvie, and Anthony "A-Logg" Logatto!

And then we get to me... "Candybars" was the #1 most requested song of 2017 on "The Dr. Demento Show". I am so happy, flattered, humbled, honored, and, quite frankly, hungry. I've lost 20 pounds on Weight Watchers since I posrted this song, and I'm going to do my best to use it an an anthem to inspire me to keep going and getting healthier and slimmer. Thank you all so so much to everyone who supported me and this song this year, and kept requesting it to be played again every month.

And as the good Doctor himself pointed out on the show, this is my FIFTH NUMBER ONE SONG OF THE YEAR on Dr. Demento's Funny 25 Countdown. I did some research to see who else might have had more Number One songs of the year than that, and the answer isn't surprising:

2002 - Peter Parker - the great Luke Ski2003 - Stealing Like A Hobbit - the great Luke Ski2011 - Snoopy The Dogg - the great Luke Ski2014 - Fake Adult - the great Luke Ski2017 - Candybars - the great Luke Ski

I asked Jeff Morris (Dr. Demento's archiver extrordinaire), if I were to go about saying that "I have gotten the #1 spot of the year on Dr. Demento's Funny 25 more than any other artist in the show's history", do you think that's truthful, or is that me stretching the truth to suit my egotistical needs? His response was "It's hard to say, but I certainly wouldn't count 1981 [& 1984] as him having two #1s. He was #1 locally and nationally, but I'd just count that as one #1." ... "So I'd say you both have 5 year end #1s. But technically you're right, on the shows heard in most parts of the country, he was only announced as having 4 #1s while you've had 5. You could certainly say no one has more year-end #1s than you (since 5 is not greater than 5) and I don't think anyone would debate that. Or just write and record another #1 for next year, and stop Al from doing the same!" Well, I certainly intend to keep making funny music, and I don't think even Superman could stop "Weird Al" from doing anything he sets his mind to, so we'll just see how things shake out in the future. In any case, for the sake of my ego, my resume, and having another feather to put in my cap, I can definately say "I've had five #1 songs of the year on "The Dr. Demento Show", and the only other act to do that is "Weird Al" Yankovic." So I have that going for me.

All in all, that's 16 years in a row I've had a song on the Funny 25, with songs of mine appearing on a total of 19 Funny 25 countdowns. Copying, pasting, and updating from last year, here's...

Luke Ski on the Dr. Demento Funny 25 Countdown Compilation album track list:1. "Insane and the Brain" (#7 in 1997)2. "Kenny Was A Kid From South Park" (#6 in 1998)3. "Fanboy" (#24 in 2000)4. "Peter Parker" (#1 in 2002)5. "Stealing Like A Hobbit" (#1 in 2003, #11 in 2004)6. "The Spongy Dance" (#4 in 2004)7. "Vader Boy" (#4 in 2005)8. "You Don't Know Jack" (#2 in 2006, cover by Tony Goldmark #21 in 2013)9. "Dementia Revolution" (#20 in 2007, #23 in 2009)10. "Holding Out For Hiro" (#12 in 2007)11. "Jack Bauer" (#19 in 2008)12. "Battlestar Rhapsody" (#14 in 2008)13. "Too Much Stuff" (#2 in 2009)14. "Marvel Poppins" (#22 in 2009)15. "It's Good To Be The King" (#19 in 2010)16. "Snoopy The Dogg" (#1 in 2011, #25 in 2014)17. "WalkingSilly" (#13 in 2011)18. "When You Wish Upon A Death Star" (#18 in 2012, #3 in 2013)19. "Fake Adult" (#1 in 2014, #17 in 2015)20. "I'm Vambre Warrior" (#6 in 2016)21. "1,000 FuMPs" by the FuMP (#4 in 2016)22. "Candybars" (#1 in 2017)

So, if you're bored, make an iTunes playlist of that, and experience what me devoting the past 24 years of my life to comedy music has resulted in. All that and two Logan Awards seem pretty frickin' sweet to me. :)

One last time, PLEASE REQUEST "CANDYBARS" FOR "THE DR. DEMENTO SHOW" TODAY at http://drdemento.com/request , and please include your email address when you do so your request counts towards the Top Ten tally! THIS WEEKEND IS THE LAST "TOP TEN" COUNTDOWN FOR THE YEAR ON "THE DR. DEMENTO SHOW"!

My latest song parody "CandyBars" was #5 on Dr. Demento's Top Ten for August, and hit the #1 and #2 spots earlier this year! Thank you all so much to all you calorie-counting fans who requested it! This makes it one of the most requested songs of the year thus far! Woo-hoo!!! :D To all of you regular Dr. D. listeners, if you'd like to see "Candybars" make the monthly Top Ten for October 2017, then please REQUEST it for "The Dr. Demento Show" TODAY at http://drdemento.com/request , and please include your email address when you do so your request counts towards the Top Ten tally! And to those of you who aren't regular listeners, well, you should be! Check out the show anytime at http://drdemento.com!

"MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU",MY ALL "STAR WARS" COMPILATION ALBUM ISNOW ON BANDCAMP WITH NEW SONG, "ROGUE"!

"This will be a day long remembered", the 40th Anniversary of the release of "Star Wars"! To commemorate that, and by popular fan demand, I have put ALL OF MY STAR WARS SONG PARODIES onto one digital compilation album, titled "MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU", available at LukeSki.Bandcamp.com. For today only, May 25th, I'm selling this 53-minute collection for only five dollars and twenty-five cents. Yes, it's $5.25 on 5/25! After that, it'll be $9.99, so get it today and spread the word throughout your internet galaxy!

For this day and this collection, I have created a new "Star Wars" parody, "Rogue", which features the Urso-good Bonnie Gordon of "The Library Bards" on lead vocals, and the Leia-to-my-Luke Carrie Dahlby on background vocals, with a "most impressive" backing track by Jeff Dutton, aka Bonecage. You can download this track for free right now at the FuMP, http://www.thefump.com .

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SO, HERE'S THE IMPORTANT PART THAT I NEED YOUR HELP WITH! If you're reading this update, chances are, you already own all of the tracks on the "Farce" collection, except for "Rogue", which you can get at the FuMP for free. So, the "Farce" collection wasn't really made for you. It was made for all of the people that you know and talk to on social media who DON'T have any of my songs, but you know would love them if they heard them. I'm doing this $5.25 on 5/25 deal as a promotion to try to get some attention to myself today as the nation's premiere maker of nerdy comedy songs that nobody has ever heard of. So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE share the Bandcamp album link (http://lukeski.bandcamp.com/album/may-the-farce-be-with-you) and the FuMP link to "Rogue" (http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=2196) to your Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Google+, MySpace, LiveJournal, smoke signals, semaphore, morse code, and two tin cans with a string between them. Any online attention and press you guys can get me today would be very much appreciated.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thanks everyone, and I hope you all enjoy this surprise bonus Thursday FuMP track. Celebrate Star Wars today like an ewok drumming on a stormtrooper helmet, and may the force be with you, always.